Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And where is the conceptual or photo-based work that paralleled all this : Baldessari or Kruger or Lawler . |
| 2 | Skiing was one of the best-kept secrets in the world until Mathias Zdarsky invented downhill or Alpine skiing and opened the first real ski school near Vienna by the beginning of the twentieth century . |
| 3 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 4 | She presented three rows of two letters in either the left or right field and asked subjects either for a full report of all six letters or simply to recall a particular pair of letters ( partial report condition ) corresponding to a single column of the display . |
| 5 | He said it 's not an offence he said if you 've broke down , you ca n't help , he said but you 've got ta really move it so I went round to Paul and there was about seven or eight blokes that pushed it all the way round to Bernie 's . |
| 6 | However , where an authority considered that a particular course was essential to the national or regional interest but regarded the cost as excessive , it could propose to the AFEC that it covered the whole cost of that course . |
| 7 | The applicants in the main proceedings pointed out that the Secretary of State conceded in the Divisional Court that Community law would prevent the enforcement of nationality , domicile and residence requirements as conditions for entry for Community nationals to occupations or economic activities and sought to justify the conditions on the basis of the obligations of the United Kingdom in public international law and of the special nature of the Common Fisheries Policy . |
| 8 | The emission standards were set without regard to the constraints of technological or economic feasibility that had previously influenced policy-making . |
| 9 | These may be members of local community groups or unemployed centres and/or paid staff of particular projects or paid staff working in the community . |
| 10 | First was the argument that the urban is characterized not by any spatial or cultural boundary as had been contended by earlier theorists , but as the site of consumption processes involved in the reproduction of labour power . |
| 11 | They constantly warned us of the danger of the roads , about the thieves and vagabonds who dressed in green or brown buckram and played Robin Hood in the dark forests or wastelands we passed through . |
| 12 | It was probably the archosaurs that started the division between herbivores and carnivores , since all primitive animals were scavengers , or killed prey that killed other prey . |
| 13 | There 's none of the dazzling leaps or appalling lapses that gave previous albums a dynamic range . |
| 14 | But that would be a case of our having a competing or countervailing reason that conflicted with our main positive reason for not killing or stealing . |
| 15 | Although he was a fully qualified pilot , he never to my knowledge ( certainly not whilst he was with No 7 Squadron ) was ever captain of an aircraft ; he had been second pilot , or flown as mid- upper , or rear gunner or had taken some other crew function , but at the same time he would be researching and demonstrating some aspect of a project that he was currently engaged with at the Institute . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , certain commentators ( particularly Atkinson , 1984 ; Meager , 1985 ) have seized upon these or similar examples and Presented them as showing the direction which personnel policy ( and here their writings are rather unclear ) is , or should be taking to cope with the challenges posed by a rapidly changing , increasingly competitive economic environment . |
| 17 | It is worth getting to know and recognize the small black blob-like chrysalis that adheres to stems and leaf stalks because it can very easily be mistaken for caterpillar or similar droppings and knocked away . |
| 18 | Without doing anything at all he could make things happen for which he must be punished with slaps , missed meals or verbal assaults that left him trembling and incoherent . |
| 19 | Tottenham2 Aston Villa5 THE most disappointing aspect of Tottenham 's 13th home defeat of the season was not their naive defending or individual errors that made Aston Villa think some of their opponents were practising for the PFA strike . |
| 20 | The Methodist people had declined numerically , lacked effective or consistent leadership and had become feeble and thoroughly disheartened . |
| 21 | a section of text marked off by rules or white space and presented separately from the main text and illustrations . |
| 22 | The silence held for two or three minutes and disturbed Mrs Robinson , who came in with fresh candles and the welcome offer of port . |
| 23 | He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake . |
| 24 | he spent erm , two years in the services I think dur during the war , two or three years and went through a bit of action and then , I think she said he was a policeman when he came out he , he joined the police force and he was cycling home one day and erm , I do n't know , he fell off the bicycle , hit his head and he died |
| 25 | We have been bemused too long by the great military roads of the Romans and have not given enough thought and research to the local ‘ economic ’ roads that developed during the two or three centuries that followed the Conquest and the brief phase of military occupation . |
| 26 | There was two or three men that did like . |
| 27 | But tonight there had been no time to get the cheese or sardines or cold ham that made his evening meal ; Sean never liked to cook in his bedsit above the premises of Hogan 's lest the smell of food linger and be deemed offensive . |
| 28 | By 1974 the people of the occupied territories clearly did not wish to return to Jordanian or Egyptian control and wanted self-determination , something which 242 did not propose , as the PLO began to complain . |
| 29 | 1954 ) it was the overcrowded or inadequate buildings that caused the greatest strain on family life . |
| 30 | Firstly , the other causes of death may have included a high proportion of respiratory or diarrhoeal deaths that had been misclassified — for example , the cause of death in the trial by West et al was ascertained from a verbal necropsy report . |